Lessons learnt on scaling-up multiple-use water services Barbara van Koppen International Water Management Institute

1 2 1 Andes (Colombia & Bolivia) 2 Limpopo (Zimbabwe & South Africa) 3 Nile (Ethiopia) 3 4 Indus-Ganges (India & Nepal) 5 Mekong (Thailand) 4 5 Lessons from the Learning Alliances of the ‘MUS project’ of the Challenge Program Water and Food

This presentation Project focus on Homestead-scale MUS Community-scale MUS Scaling-up by five water stakeholder groups Water users, CBOs, and local private service providers NGOs Domestic sector Productive sector Local government

Homestead-scale MUS lpcd; 5 lpcd safe ‘most MDG per drop’ health labour saving, gender resilient food and income…...from livestock..from fish..from enterprise..from crops

Community-scale MUS Multiple sources, shared infrastructure, re-use People’s participation for livelihoods and sustainability

1. Water users, CBOs Own investments and innovations for self-supply and local management have always been for MUS Seeking to integrate fragmented professional support Communal self-supply in peri-urban Cochabamba, Bolivia Farmer Wisdom Network N.E. Thailand Water for Food Movement South Africa

2. NGOs MUS increasingly obvious for livelihoods goals Technological innovation homestead-&community-scale MUS Institutionalizing MUS in government for sustainability and upscaling Mvuramanzi, Zimbabwe CRS, Adi Daero basin, Ethiopia IDE, Nepal

3. Domestic sector Targeting everybody, including the poor, and homesteads Single-use expertise on health Expertise on engineering and management for small-scale uses Claiming unplanned livelihood benefits Recognizing higher design norms for anticipated expansion Future planning for higher service levels, with 5 lpcd safe Moving up from ‘add-ons’ to community-scale MUS Cinara, PAAR, Colombia IDE, Jalswarajya/Aple Pani Maharashtra

4. Productive sector Expertise on productive end-uses at fields and direct access (crops, soils, markets, livestock, fisheries) Expertise on engineering and management for larger-scale uses and water resources management Recognizing the homestead as a site of pro-poor and gender- equitable productive water uses, besides domestic uses Moving from ‘irrigation add-ons’ to community-scale MUS

5. Local government Permanent democratic interface to match communities’ needs with fragmented support Developing implementation capacity for iterative community-scale MUS (e.g. SADC seven steps approach) AWARD, South Africa, integrating MUS in municipal Integrated Development Plans

In sum Opportunities for Scaling-up MUS Water users, CBOs and NGOs: Community-scale MUS for livelihoods Homestead-scale MUS a likely priority Domestic and productive sectors: Merging resources and expertise on engineering and management across sites and scales; Providing single-use expertise according to people’s priorities Local government: the coordinator

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CRS, Adi Daero sub-basin, Ethiopia